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List Price: $14.98Amazonaws.com's Price: $12.49 You Save: $2.49 (17%)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: LANCASTER,BURT
Fabric Type: 9780792849155
Graphics Memory Size: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Legal Disclaimer: 0792849159
Manufacturer Labor Warranty Description: 25
Maximum Color Depth: MGM (Video & DVD)
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishDubbedDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Metal Type: MGM (Video & DVD)
Pearl Type: D1001582D
Publisher: 1
Total Firewire Ports: MGM (Video & DVD)
Total Metal Weight: 1
Total Parallel Ports: March 06, 2001
Total S Video Out Ports: 146 minutes
MGM (Video & DVD)
July 07, 1960
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Lancaster stars as Gantry, a charismatic preacher who promises eternal salvation, but who personally pursues wealth and power.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 18-DEC-2001
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video:
Brothers and sisters, can we get a witness for this woeful tale of saints and sinners? Burt Lancaster earned his only Oscar as the wide-smiling, glad-handing, soul-saving charlatan Elmer Gantry, a salesman who turns his gift for preaching into a career at the pulpit. Climbing on board the barnstorming evangelical tour of revivalist Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), a true believer in the Aimee Semple McPherson mold, Gantry declaims, invokes, and sermonizes his way to the top until a former flame-turned-prostitute (Shirley Jones in an Oscar-winning performance) threatens to reveal his dark past as a womanizer and con man. Lancaster harnesses all his physical vigor and natural charisma for this role, literally throwing himself into his preaching with the vigor of an acrobat and the sing-song delivery of a gospel singer--he even brays like a hound to show the Holy Spirit within him. Gantry is a showman, pure and simple, and while he doesn't fool true-believer Sister Sharon, he gives her a few object lessons in playing the crowd. Director Richard Brooks, who also took home an Oscar for his screenplay (adapted from the Sinclair Lewis novel), creates a rousing drama both on and off the pulpit, and provides fine roles for an excellent supporting cast, including Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, John McIntire, and singer Patti Page. --Sean Axmaker
Average Rating: 
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My husband said this was THE best movie Burt Lancaster did! We had just seen "From Here to Eternity", which I thought was very good. I was amazed at the acting, more so Jean Simmons, but Lancaster was VERY good! If you haven't seen this movie, I'd recommend it -- via Amazon you don't have to be up at 3:30 a.m. to watch it and no commercials! -- Vicki M
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Great performances by all; passed it around to several friends - even though they saw it years ago. One od my friends never saw it and was thrilled. A definite classic in "taking religion on the road"...
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Burt Lancaster plays the role of an unscrupulus individual who will grab at anything just to make a buck, until reality jumps up and bites him. Faining something he really isn't, opens him up to an achievement that he no way deserves. These prsonality traits and the results are portrayed by a notably cast.
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Before I rave about Burt Lancaster's most outstanding--and subsequent signature--role, I have to get off my chest all the things that bothered me about ELMER GANTRY. Things like mindless stereotypes--from Bible-thumping Midwestern nimrods to ecclesiastical hypocrites. (Like we've never seen any of this before?) Jean Simmons is more convincing as an instructor at a charm school than as an evangelist under a chautauqua tent, while Shirley Jones's soiled dove role is a case study in contrived predictability. ... Read More
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My dad thinks this is one of the best movies ever and Amazon was the easiest place to find it. Great movie and great price. Thanks Amazon!
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